by Philip Roth
Rating: 4.00 (1 ratings)
First published 2006
Confronted by death on the shores of his childhood, a successful New York ad executive faces a reckoning. As he navigates family turmoil, failed marriages, and the physical deterioration of old age, he grapples with becoming the man he never wanted to be. In the end, this everyman's story is a poignant reflection on the human condition.
Genres: literary-fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, contemporary, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-secrets, mortality, personal-growth
Setting: New York, New York (State)
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
192 pages · Hardcover · Houghton Mifflin